Everything Everything and Foals Nominated for Ivor Novellos
The XX and Villagers are also up for the songwriting awards....
The Ivors "celebrate, honour and reward excellence in British and Irish songwriting and composing" and are highly regarded among musicians.
The 56th Ivor Novello Awards ceremony takes place May 19.
The full list of nominees:
Best Song Musically and Lyrically:
Villagers - 'Becoming a Jackal'
Everything Everything - 'MY KZ, UR BF'
Foals - 'Spanish Sahara'
Best Contemporary Song:
The XX - 'Islands'
Benga B / Katy B / Geeneus - 'Katy on a Mission'
Tinie Tempah - 'Pass Out'
Album Award:
Bombay Bicycle Club - 'Flaws'
Everything Everything - 'Man Alive'
Plan B - 'The Defamation of Strickland Banks'
PRS for Music Most Performed Work:
Kylie Minogue - 'All the Lovers'
Plan B - 'She Said'
Scouting for Girls - 'This Ain’t A Love Song'
Best Television Soundtrack:
Agatha Christie’s Marple, Series V
Any Human Heart
Going Postal
Best Original Film Score:
How To Train Your Dragon - Composer: John Powell
Monsters - Composer: Jon Hopkins
Unstoppable - Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
Best Original Video Game Score:
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - Composer: Nitin Sawhney
James Bond 007: Blood Stone - Composer: Richard Jacques
Napoleon: Total War - Composers: Richard Beddow / Richard Birdsall / Ian Livingstone
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